My parents tricked me into believing the only drinks that existed were water, milk and orange juice. Until i was about seven years old i had never had encountered soft drinks and then only by accident when some friends bought me a sprite, then i kept asking my parents about the sweet water… they told me they didn’t know what i was talking about…
In the end its good cause i stick with water most of the time

And since my relationship with said girlfriend did not exactly produce the offspring, I never know exactly what to say without getting into the past 7 years of my life. I avoid these conversations when I can.

You’re totally not alone, but i feel like that a lot too. I guess we are kind of a rare breed. Its harder for me to tell people I’m a parent than it is to tell people I’m queer sometimes. When I come out as being queer they’re all like “oh thats cool”, but when I come out as being a queer parent… so many questions! “Oh… I wouldn’t have guessed. You’re gay, how did that work”? I have a girlfriend, and when all three of us are out we get to answer super-fun questions about whose uterus the kid came from and where we got the sperm. Totally cool. Not awkward at all.

It’s definitely not boring. I’m 18 years old and I love reading about kids. This may be because I’m planning to be an au pair in a year or so, which is enough like parenting to need to know how to feed kids three meals every day. So. Not boring at all. Thank you, Laneia. We love you.

Like, no, seriously, my mom used to cook broccoli and melt a little bit of cheese on them so my brother and I would as for GREEN TREES WITH CHEESE, PLEASE.

It wasn’t until just last year that I learned my mom didn’t actually like broccoli. Or nearly any vegetable. This shook my world, because she’d never made a fuss about eating them in front of us. She always had big helpings of salad and veggies at dinner. So this is probably your best bet to get kids to eat real food.

YOU GUYS thank you!! i thought i was the only young queer single mom in the world — like i really thought that — so sometimes it’s still kinda weird to talk about my life here, because i’m worried it’ll be boring for everyone who doesn’t have kids, you know? but then i remember that i’m not the only one! so i write these for you. thank you for reading!!